Alexandra Thinks About Things

I’ve been sitting on this mind map for quite some time now but never got around to properly documenting my thoughts. Chances are that it will never happen so I’ll put it up for grabs. The mind map is huge. In an ideal world, a new release would be supported by a whole team pushing [...][Continue Reading...]

Hum… I guess it’s been a while since I last blogged. This time however I have something to show off: Till’s and my presentation at CampKDE is on YouTube. And without further ado — enjoy the show. The slides are quite visible in the video but I thought embedding them here wouldn’t hurt. View more [...][Continue Reading...]

After having a quick chat with Kévin Ottens on IRC we agreed that it would be useful to write up a small how-to explaining the Art of Booth Organization™ as a follow up on the how-to for sprints I posted earlier. He has been poking me about it repeatedly, so voilà, Monsieur, finalement, c’est fait. While [...][Continue Reading...]

Ariya complained about me being too theoretical again and wanted examples for my last blog. So here we go. One of my alltime favourite online companies is moo.com. I bet you heard me talking about it already. They make those lovely mini cards, post cards, shiny little stickers, and cleverly use a lot of 3rd [...][Continue Reading...]

Three weeks of travel are finally over. I enjoyed most of it but it took it’s toll. One of the reasons I didn’t feel the summit was as successful for me personally than it could have been. During the four days in Berlin I spent mostly in the halls of LinuxTag, I had the energy [...][Continue Reading...]

Image via Wikipedia 1.5 years ago, Franz was in the same position as I am now: he needed a helping hand. And unfortunately it’s the same event again. There is an OpenExpo in Winterthur coming up on 23rd and 24th September and so far noone has stepped up to organize it. These expos are nice [...][Continue Reading...]

I replied to an email today explaining my usual formula for organizing a developer sprint. While typing I thought I might as well blog about it so others can clone it too. Please, comment if you think I forgot something. Set a Date First figure out which weekend will fit most possible attendees. Propose no [...][Continue Reading...]

It’s this time again. Technically, we started last night already with team building (aka socializing aka dinner) but today is the first day of real work. We were kindly invited into the KDAB office in Berlin-Kreuzberg again and I have the strong feeling that Inge is seriously aiming for killing the coffee reserve. We went [...][Continue Reading...]

You know it’s spring when travels to Berne, Switzerland, hit you again. Regardless of the weather of course. Although this time, it did feel like spring over there and on the day I left for Oslo again, it was really warm, too warm actually for my thick woolen jacket. On the other hand, the jacket [...][Continue Reading...]

Thanks to the German Bahn, I gained an hour offline in a train. All my tasks I could finish without the internet are done now, so I thought to myself I could as well blog something. I squeezed myself into the ICE to Basel SBB with a incredibly heavy suitcase, a backpack, a cardboard roll [...][Continue Reading...]

About me

A Girl Gone Geek.

Discovered the Usenet in 94 and has been lost ever since. Started toying with web sites when browsers were called Lynx. Contributed to KDE. Spent 10 years living opera somewhere in the middle of it all. Learnt a lot.